Hi.
You may be interested to learn that my mother, who is now 85, vividly remembers seeing the plane come down.

She was in the habbit of staying at her Grandmothers house, who was ill, at the time who lived at Hill Cottage, Downend Rd, Puriton. If you search for this address in Google Earth you will find the cottage which is still there today.

According to Mum the plane came over the back garden of the cottage belching smoke and flame at no more than 20 feet. So terrifying was this close encounter that the memory has stayed with her and haunted her nightmares.

Two points may be of interest. Firstly, she is absolutely certain that it was pitch dark at the time which is contrary to the crash time given above. And secondly she remembers that the cockpit was on fire.

With regard to the timing of the crash she say’s:
1) Her farther sent her to spend the night at her Grandmothers each day and she would not have been there much before 8pm.
2) The local paper (as reproduced) gave as an eyewitness a “Miss Dutton” who was “sitting in a car”. Now cars were rare in this rural area and petrol rarer. Farmers and Officers being the exeption. Mum knew every one but cannot recall a Miss Dutton and anyway, why was she sitting in a car?. Her explanation is simple enough. Miss Dutton was siting in a car with her boyfried after a night out!! A common practice apparently. And “Miss Dutton” would have given a false name to the paper!
Regards
John Armstrong
Torquay